According to the Hollywood Reporter, Chris Wallace is on the short list for replacements if -- more likely when -- Katie Couric departs the CBS Evening News anchor desk. Wallace, son of the CBS elder statesmen and 60 Minutes attack dog Mike Wallace, has been host of Fox News Sunday since 2003. But the guy isn't interested. "As much as I grew up in CBS and as much as I associate that anchor chair with Walter Cronkite and the history of broadcasting, I have never been so happy as I have working the last four-plus years at Fox. I suspect I've had a much better last couple of years than Katie Couric."
Still, you have to wonder if Wallace isn't secretly interested in a spot that even his father never attained, the big chair at CBS. Interestingly, he's worked at NBC and ABC, but never CBS. Perhaps he doesn't want to be working in his father's shadow, or didn't, because by this statement, I kind of wonder if he isn't angling for the gig. "I don't think they would offer it to me, but if they did, I would let you and everybody else know I had been offered it because it would be good bragging rights. But I'd say no."
It seems to me that anybody other than a Fox transplant would be higher on the list than junior Wallace, just because of the contretemps between the networks. Would Les Moonves want to have to swallow Katie's failure and bringing in a Fox man as his anchor? I think not.
Hmm...what do you think? Is this a case of Chris Wallace protesting just a bit too much -- is he saying no so that someone will try to convince him to say yes?
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5-18-2008 @ 4:08PM
margaret said...
Chris Wallace is so much more than a nightly news anchor. He is intelligent, interesting and is the best host, interviewer and personality that I have seen in a long time. Good for you Chris
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5-18-2008 @ 4:24PM
0megapart!cle said...
Really, you think so, Margaret? Let me guess, you think Fox News is the best cable news network, and is completely "fair and balanced". Chris Wallace is undoubtedly the most talented suit on the network, but that isn't saying much at all, and he is a pale shadow of the pathetic nightly newscasts of the broadcast networks, which is sad indeed. Jon Stewart and Keith Olbermann are the only nightly news anchor of any worth or substance on a consistent basis, and one of them isn't even a newsman. That shows the ridiculousness of the vast majority of news produced by the major networks, broadcast or cable.
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5-19-2008 @ 11:57AM
kevjohn said...
I don't think either one of them are legitimate news men. but you're right, that makes it even more deplorable for the major networks that Stewart and Olbermann deliver more substance than their overpayed, overhyped anchors. I'd rather see Christopher Wallace host CBS news than Chris Wallace. And he's dead.
5-19-2008 @ 12:10PM
0megapart!cle said...
Why don't you think Olbermann is a newsman? He certainly delivers more snark than the typical newsman, and has his own ideological viewpoint, but so do all the other news anchors on every network ever aired, Olbermann is just more honest about his bias.
5-18-2008 @ 5:21PM
MacGuffin said...
It's a non-denial denial. Kind of like when political leaders are asked by the pundits if they would ever consider being Vice President and say "no--never".
But the funny thing is that no one ever turns the job down when asked by the Presidential candidate.
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5-18-2008 @ 5:28PM
Walt said...
The secret has been out for quite some years now:
When Walter Cronkite was sitting in that chair, the evening newscast was news. When anyone _anyone_ sits in that chair now, it's not news, it's entertainment.
Ever watch TMZ? Where Levin asks for stories at the top of the show, and the kids all give him their best stuff (relatively speaking)... ? I don't know what that's called, but could you imagine a news room setup like that? And news presented like that? No, I couldn't either... But ya know what? I'd like to see it done like that, just for one week. I don't know if I'd like it, but if I knew they would do something like that, I'd certainly watch it.
Of course, if news department of CBS ever did something innovative, the entire network would fall to pieces.
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5-18-2008 @ 5:59PM
Ed said...
I'll do it?
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5-18-2008 @ 5:43PM
CRVBOY said...
If he's happy on Faux News, he should stay there. Not that CBS News is much on news either, Dan "What's the Frequency Kenneth" Rather saw to that.
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5-18-2008 @ 6:10PM
Jake said...
Chris Wallace is the only remotely balanced news person on Fixed News. If he goes to CBS they'll never get a Dem or moderate to appear on their network.
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5-18-2008 @ 6:45PM
miller980 said...
Sorry to point out your typo, but neither Jon Stewart nor Keith Olbermann put out anything that could be called news. If FNC is the mouthpiece of the right wing, MSNBC is definitely the one for the left wing. What Olbermann spews nightly is as far from news as you can get.
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5-18-2008 @ 7:40PM
Oreo said...
As far from the news as possible... last time I checked MSNBC hasn't made up news stories like Fox has. Until that day Fox is shit and anyone who believes them are just ignorant close minded fools who have no right bitching about other networks.
5-18-2008 @ 8:44PM
bsgfan2003 said...
Oreo, they all fall short. They all have an agenda. It's the news "business" afterall.
5-18-2008 @ 11:34PM
Franklin said...
If you've read this craphole of a site for more than a week, you know Oreo's the "Mikey" of the new generation: He hates everything.
He's just one of the legions of pseudo-cool, know-it-all, teen-to-twenty-something males who populate blogs like this for the sole purpose of shitting on anything anyone else likes. They spend their days blogging/gaming and their nights fantasizing about giving Olbermann oral sexual gratification. Don't step on their socialist dream or expect them to get news and current affairs from any actual news source, that would be too lame for them. Who needs facts when there's so many talking heads spouting commie opinion as "the real story"?
C'mon, you're just not cool enough to blog with Oreo and Company!!
5-19-2008 @ 12:03AM
bsgfan2003 said...
Franklin: Why is your profile set to private? Was that you or are you being punished for something?
5-19-2008 @ 10:58AM
Franklin said...
bsgfan2003, that was just me. I was messing around and saw that you can set your profile to private and I set it. No real reason, just did it "for the heck of it".
5-19-2008 @ 11:13AM
Franklin said...
Damnit, I forgot to add in my description of this new 21st century "Mikey Legion" the fact that they're all: Cologne Marinated
You've smelled them, actually over-smelled them. They don't know that cologne was intended to be pleasant and only there to be noticed in close proximity rather than, perhaps, body odor. They wear the stuff by the liter using it as an olfactory IED to guarantee that you'll be bitch-slapped by that cheap smell at 100 meters upwind.
It's worse than a smoker. At least a cigarette goes out after a few minutes.
5-19-2008 @ 11:12AM
bsgfan2003 said...
Oh, thanks.